Ward's® Live Volvox aureus Culture
Catalog # 470176-360
Supplier: Ward's Science
Specifications
- Description:Volvox aureus (Small)
- Cat. no.:470176-360
- Media:Basic culture solution
- No. of Students:30
- Packaging:Tube
- Supplier No.:WARD470176-360
Specifications
About this item
Volvox aureus is a species of colonial green algae that forms spherical colonies of cells.
- Extremely easy to visualize
- Beautiful spherical, hollow colonies containing immature daughter cells
- Volvox has green plastids and cell walls composed of cellulose
- Cytoplasmic connections are the size of flagella- thinner than closely related V.globator (also available)
Volvox aureus is a species of Chlorophyte algae that can be found in freshwater lakes and ponds. When in optimal conditions, V. aureus will reproduce asexually; during times of drought or other adversity it will switch to sexual reproduction.
Genus: Volvox Species: aureus
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